Sagittaria sagittifoliaL.

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Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sagittaria sagittifolia, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. a Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205693096
Sagittaria sagittifolia, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. b Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165113575
Sagittaria sagittifolia, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. c Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162300626
Sagittaria sagittifolia, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. d Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161759792
Sagittaria sagittifolia, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. e Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161053465
Sagittaria sagittifolia, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. f Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159963633
Sagittaria sagittifolia, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. g Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159964310
Sagittaria sagittifolia, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. h Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158353381

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Native range 38 botanical countries

Regions where Sagittaria sagittifolia is native: Altay, Krasnoyarsk, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, North European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, South European Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AltayKrasnoyarskNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiyaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSouth European RussiaSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Sardegna
Native distribution of Sagittaria sagittifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
South European Russia RUS
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Krasnoyarsk KRA
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 296 in flower of 428 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Sagittaria sagittifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 296 of 428 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 33 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alisma sagittaria Stokes
  • Sagitta aquatica Pline St.Lager
  • Sagitta major Scop.
  • Sagitta palustris Bubani
  • Sagittaria acuminata Sm.
  • Sagittaria aquatica Lam.
  • Sagittaria aquatica var. minor Gray
  • Sagittaria bulbosa (Poir.) Donn
  • Sagittaria gigantea hort. ex E.Vilm.
  • Sagittaria heterophylla Schreb.
  • Sagittaria lancifolia hort. ex E.Vilm.
  • Sagittaria minor Mill.
  • Sagittaria monoeca Gilib.
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia f. obtusa Bolle
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia f. vallisneriifolia (Coss. & Germ.) Neuman
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia f. xanthandra Holmb.
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia subvar. butomoides Asch. & Graebn.
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia subvar. pumila Asch. & Graebn.
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia var. aequiloba Schur
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia var. angustata Tinant
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia var. angustifolia Gaudin
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia var. angustissima Boreau
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia var. arifolia Rouy
  • Sagittaria sagittifolia var. bollei Asch. & Graebn.

and 9 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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